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    Undergrad Why doesn't the motion become truly horizontal when spinning a weight on a string faster?

    Imagine you are spinning a weight at the end of a string horizontally. As one increases the speed with which the weight is being spinned, the motion becomes more and more horizontal. I understand this occurs because the centripetal force (tension of the string) is increasing but at the same time...